What exactly does KB2952664 do?

Anonymous
2014-04-27T00:12:24+00:00

KB2952664 was published on April 22, 2014 and appears in my Windows Update List (I am running Windows 7 Pro - 64 bit).

The description of this update is vague:  "This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows."

Anyone have more information on what this update actually does? If its sole purpose is to ease the "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (or 8.1 or 8.1 update), then I'll just permanently hide KB2952664 (I have no desire or intention to "upgrade" my Windows 7 system to any flavor of Windows 8).

If its purpose is to ease what would be a true Windows 7 upgrade to a yet-to-be-announced Windows 7 SP2, then I'll keep it (but still would like to have more information about what KB2952664 actually does before installing).

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T23:13:38+00:00

    I think the only reason one would need the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service is to "upgrade" from Windows 7 (or 8) to Windows 10.

    I have no intention of ever "upgrading" my Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 .... so I do not need the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service, and I will hide KB2952664.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T19:27:31+00:00

    Read all about it:

    https://www.askwoody.com/2016/win-7-8-1-customers-getting-hit-by-the-old-kb-2952664-get-windows-10-telemetry-patch/

    Woody refers to  "Windows Update Analytics service" and reports the patch as being necessary for that.

    I'm pretty sure he meant "Windows Upgrade Analytics service".

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T17:51:34+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T17:39:53+00:00

    I think this "update" (KB2952664) enables more snooping (collection of data from out computers) by Microsoft.

    I have always hidden it (each time it has been re-released) and will continue to hide it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T16:48:28+00:00

    Guess what?   KB2952664 re-appeared in my Windows 7 Update this morning   I installed it for the 27th time.  I have not looked at the KB article online to see if it has been updated to tell us what was updated.  As far as I can tell, this patch has not caused me problems.  Does this patch remove more of the Get Windows 10 malware?

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